Global Cost Controls Lead for Major Projects

Innovar Group; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

Innovar Group, based in Bellevue, WA, seeks a Senior Global Cost Manager to own cost management for North American projects while supporting global standards and reporting. You will lead estimating, budgeting, forecasting, and cost governance across design through delivery.

You will partner with finance, procurement, and BI teams to improve cost data, templates, and cross-project cost visibility, in a fast-growing data center portfolio.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of progressive cost management, estimating, or commercial-management experience.
• Experience with CAPEX planning, cash flow, cost modeling, and change governance.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling; Procore cost modules required/preferred; ERP exposure (Yardi Construction Manager).

Responsibilities

• Lead project-level estimating, budgeting, forecasting, contingency tracking, cost reporting and change control.
• Maintain cost targets and benchmarking by market and project type; identify variance drivers.
• Support business-case inputs, CAPEX updates, cost sensitivities, and budget governance from development to delivery.
• Create budget bridges, variance narratives, KPI reporting, and executive cost summaries.
• Track commitments, actuals, forecasts, cash flow, contingency drawdown, and change costs across scopes.
• Validate escalation, inflation, and regional market assumptions affecting CAPEX.
• Manage external cost consultants and ensure deliverables meet standards.
• Collaborate with delivery, development, investment, and BI teams to improve cost data and reporting templates.

Skills

Cost management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Cost controls

KPI reporting

Excel

Financial modeling

Vendor management

Tools

Procore

Yardi Construction Manager

Job description

Innovar Group, based in Bellevue, WA, seeks a Senior Global Cost Manager to own cost management for North American projects while supporting global standards and reporting. You will lead estimating, budgeting, forecasting, and cost governance across design through delivery.

You will partner with finance, procurement, and BI teams to improve cost data, templates, and cross-project cost visibility, in a fast-growing data center portfolio.